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Marlene MacCallum

WorkBook Works Do Not Enter

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Do Not Enter, hand bound tunnel book and paper wrapper with red thread closure, photogravure and letterpress, 18.5 × 23 × 1.5 cm (closed), 1998. View of closed text block sitting in opened paper wrapper.

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Do Not Enter, partially expanded view, 18 × 23 × 80 cm (extended), 1998

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Do Not Enter, fully expanded view from above, 1998

This is a tunnel book that leads you through contradictory experiences of a text which attempts to deny entrance and images that beckon by offering passageways. It obliquely refers to the absurdity of attempting to define territory.